Word: halston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warner and Elizabeth Taylor walk into a room, and all the suits head toward the Virginia Senator. Taylor describes her three lonely years as a congressional wife as a kind of hot fudge hell. Food -- lots of it -- substituted for having a life. She blew up to 180 lbs.; Halston designed caftans for her. "Not only is a Senator's wife not heard, she's pretty much not seen," Taylor complained...
...night, if you feel like crying," Fitness Instructor Anniqa Foress says, to soothe newcomers. The twelve-year-old Ashram is notorious for hiking trails so steep and narrow that the only escape is to keep going up. After one laborious climb, Barbara Borkin, a vice president of Halston Fragrances in New York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away at home," chortles Bennstrom. Typical Ashram lunch: a small fruit plate, plus a dish of cottage cheese with six stranded raisins flanking a lone...
Fittingly enough, it was on the body of Blondie's Debbie Harry that Sprouse's fashion fantasies first assumed public form. One of two sons in an Air Force family, Sprouse had dropped out of the Rhode Island School of Design and done some apprentice work with Halston before taking up the boho life in Manhattan nine years ago. He had been coloring huge black-and-white Xeroxes, when he became friendly with Harry and started to make her stage clothes. "Stephen put me into minis and high black boots," she says, "and it just went on from...
...keep their high-fashion image, some department stores are privately threatening to cease ordering from designers who sell to what they consider to be less desirable outlets. New York City's Bergdorf Goodman stopped carrying Halston clothes when it discovered that the designer had created a line of clothing for J.C. Penney that included $100 dresses (compared with $1,000 to $2,000 for a typical Halston dress at Bergdorf's). Says President Ira Neimark: "We decided that designers and retailers have to decide who their customers are. Halston made his decision, and we have made ours...
...hour. The move to foreign goods has been accelerated by the renewed popularity of private-label merchandise. Retailers like New York City's Lord & Taylor and Houston's Sakowitz have become disenchanted with designer products because the widely available garments have lost much of their exclusivity. Halston's name, for example, now appears on J.C. Penney's dresses. Even worse, designer clothes frequently turn up in discount and off-price stores that are multiplying like fried-chicken outlets. By promoting their own label, retailers can guarantee exclusivity as well as protect their profit margins. Since...